GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds, her first literary novel after the 2007 bestseller Turtle Valley, was published in 2016, nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award, and short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for fiction.

The Almost Wife, a thriller, was a Canadian bestseller in 2021 and will be followed by The Almost Widow in June 2023. Gail has also written many hi-lo books for both teens and adults working to improve their literacy skills.

Gail taught for nearly a decade within the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now offers developmental edits and mentors writers privately online. She lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.